Tips, tricks, and pitfalls when applying for EACVI certification
Release Date: 10/15/2025
HIT Journal Club: diagnostic accuracy in cardiovascular imaging
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Giovanni Benfari, University of Verona, Verona - Italy and Sonia Borodzicz-Jazdzyk, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw - Poland. The first episode of the EACVI Journal Club podcast is dedicated to the topic of diagnostic accuracy in cardiovascular imaging.
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EACVI unpacked: Highlights of this year's imaging conference
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Emma Lane, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust - UK, and Sarah Birkhoelzer, University Dorset Hospital, Bournemouth - UK. In this episode of EACVI Cardio Talk On-the-Go, Sarah Birkhoelzer and Emma Lane preview the highlights of the EACVI 2025 Congress, taking place in Vienna from 11 to 13 December. The conversation explores why EACVI has become the leading international meeting for multimodality cardiovascular imaging and what attendees can expect from this year’s expanded and redesigned programme. Sarah and Emma discuss the congress’s evolution into a fully integrated...
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Tips, tricks, and pitfalls when applying for EACVI certification
EACVI Cardio Talk
With John-Paul Carpenter, Mater Private Hospital, Dublin - Ireland, EACVI Certification and Accreditation Committee Co-Chair, and Luna Gargani, University of Pisa, Pisa - Italy, EACVI Certification and Accreditation Committee Co-Chair. Listen to this new episode of EACVI Cardio Talk and learn from John-Paul Carpenter and Luna Gargani about EACVI certification programmes current available and how to apply. More information here:
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Advances in cardiovascular imaging - Ischaemia without obstruction: a false alarm?
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Sarah Birkhoelzer, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford - UK, and Edgar Argulian, Mount Sinai Morningside, New York - USA. In this episode, we explore a study by Edgar Argulian published in European Heart Journal – Imaging Methods and Practice (2025), which challenges the assumption that myocardial ischaemia on exercise echocardiography (ExE) is benign when coronary angiography shows no obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). The study retrospectively analysed 84 patients with exercise-induced ischaemia but no obstructive CAD, subdividing them into those with normal coronaries (iNC)...
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A coffee break with Julia Grapsa and Ana Almeida
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Julia Grapsa, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Heart and Vascular Center, Boston - USA, Ana Maria G Almeida, Faculty of Medicine University of Lisbon, Lisbon - Portugal, and Sarah Birkhoelzer, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford - UK. In this special episode, Sarah Birkhoelzer is joined by Julia Grapsa, Director of Education in Echocardiography at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Ana Almeida, Professor of Cardiology at the University of Lisbon. Together, they lead the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Gender and Equity Special Interest...
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A Coffee Break with Denisa Muraru
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Sarah Moharem Elgamal, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool - UK, and Denisa Muraru, University of Milan Bicocca, Milan - Italy. In this engaging episode of EACVI Cardio Talk titled "Coffee break," we are delighted to interview Denisa Muraru, the next President of EACVI and a renowned expert in Cardiovascular Imaging. Throughout this episode, we learn about Denisa Muraru's journey, exploring the opportunities and challenges she has faced in her career. This insightful discussion also offers valuable advice and inspiration for cardiovascular imagers and researchers trying to...
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Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging: Multimodality imaging for the evaluation and management of patients with long-term left ventricular assist devices
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Matteo Camelli, Polyclinic Santa Maria alle Scotte, Siena - Italy, and Rafael Vidal Perez, CHUAC, A Coruna - Spain. Listen to this new episode of EACVI Cardio Talk and learn from Doctor Matteo Cameli about "Multimodality imaging for the evaluation and management of patients with long-term (durable) left ventricular assist devices. A clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the European Society of Cardiology". Link to the clinical consensus statement: "
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Ask the Experts: CMR parametric mapping for cardiomyopathy
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Nay Aung, Queen Mary University of London, London - UK and Bernhard Gerber, Cliniques Saint-Luc UCL, Brussels - Belgium. Listen to this new episode of EACVI Cardio Talk and learn from Professor Bernhard Gerber about "How to evaluate cardiomyopathies by cardiovascular magnetic resonance parametric mapping and late gadolinium enhancement. Link to the article:
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Ask the Experts: CMR-guided right heart catheterisation
EACVI Cardio Talk
With Marco Jan Wilhelm Gotte and Marielle Van de Veerdonk, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Ross Thomson, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK. In this episode of EACVI CardioTalk, Ross Thomson interviews Marco Gotte and Marielle van de Veerdonk, cardiac MRI experts and pioneers in CMR-guided interventional procedures. They discuss the practicalities, advantages and pitfalls of CMR-guided right heart catheterisation, how this technique can be used to construct atrial and ventricular pressure-volume loops, and how these data can provide unique insights into the...
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A Coffee Break with David Bluemke
EACVI Cardio Talk
With David Bluemke, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health - USA, and Mihir Sanghvi, Queen Mary University of London - United Kingdom. In this episode, Mihir Sanghvi interviews David Bluemke, a world leader in the field of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging. David discusses his role in the journey of CMR from rare technique to modality of choice in large-scale studies, how CMR research at population scale has benefitted cardiovascular science and provides insights from his years of international leadership roles to the next generation of cardiovascular...
info_outlineWith John-Paul Carpenter, Mater Private Hospital, Dublin - Ireland, EACVI Certification and Accreditation Committee Co-Chair, and Luna Gargani, University of Pisa, Pisa - Italy, EACVI Certification and Accreditation Committee Co-Chair.
Listen to this new episode of EACVI Cardio Talk and learn from John-Paul Carpenter and Luna Gargani about EACVI certification programmes current available and how to apply.
More information here: https://www.escardio.org/Education/Career-Development/Certification/eacvi-certification